Motivational Quotes

Death

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Death

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

10.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

11.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

14.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

15.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

16.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

18.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

19.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

21.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

22.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

23.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

24.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

25.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

27.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

28.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

29.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

30.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

31.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

32.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

33.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

34.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

36.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

39.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

40.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

41.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

42.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

44.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

46.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

47.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

48.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

49.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

50.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag